Ahsoka's fate has been decided.

by: Eric Goldman

November 7, 2012

Since the announcement of Disney buying Lucasfilm last week, there’s been a lot of speculation and curiosity (mixed with some outright nervousness from fans) about what this might all mean for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. While Lucasfilm has officially stayed quiet on the subject, there was a recent report stating that The Clone Wars is likely leaving Cartoon Network at the end of the current Season 5 – probably for Disney XD.

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Today, The Clone Wars’ supervising director, Dave Filoni, released a statement about the new scenario, via a blog on the official Star Wars site. Filoni notes his early days working for Disney’s Television Animation Division on series like Kim Possible and Lilo and Stitch: The Series and writes very enthusiastically about Lucasfilm's new owners.

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While he doesn’t go into the situation with the series potentially switching networks or give any new specifics on how much longer The Clone Wars will go (though we know work is underway on Season 6), he does end his blog with the following:

“I think this is an incredibly exciting time for all of us. I am being reunited with old friends of mine from my Disney days and getting ready, like all of you, for Episodes VII, VIII, and IX. When Revenge of the Sith was over, I found myself in the incredible position of carrying the torch forward. Now I can see the incredibly bright light that is the future of Star Wars. For those of you who are fans of The Clone Wars, do not worry. We have many stories left to tell, and every one of them came directly from George himself. Right down to the last one, where that thing with Ahsoka happens.”

Filoni obviously is implying in that statement that the very end of The Clone Wars -- and the fate of Ahsoka Tano -- has been decided upon by George Lucas, who, as Filoni has noted before, provides the scenario for pretty much every story arc for the series. So should we extrapolate then that the end point for the series has also been decided upon? We know there will be a Season 6, but is that it or does the ending come later? We shall see…